Waiting For The Moon

latimes:

Neighborhood pays price of being on wrong side of Israel’s wall: Residents of Kafr Aqab are cut off from most public services, even though they live within Jerusalem’s city limits. The once-upscale area is now a slum.

But when the emergency dispatcher heard that the school was in Kafr Aqab, separated from the rest of Jerusalem by a 36-foot-high concrete wall, he told Abu Rameelh that firetrucks wouldn’t cross Israel’s separation barrier without army protection.

Photo: Israel’s separation barrier has left residents of neighborhoods such as Kafr Aqab cut off from most public services, even though they live within Jerusalem’s city limits, hold residency cards and pay city taxes. Credit: Kevin Frayer / Associated Press

No Offense to the good people of Israel, but this is *Political Apartheid, please good people change the minds of your politicians, and in the words of Ronald Reagan “Tear Down this Wall”.

(Source: Los Angeles Times)